Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probable that Mitchell will contest the hurdles and Goodwin, '84, the half-mile, for the championship of America, at New York, on June...
...matter of common knowledge," says the Post, "that the feeling over this question has become very deep, and that it has quite destroyed the old kindly, social life at Hanover, though it is not allowed to reach the students, and ostensibly everything is quiet. The only place where the contest can be fought out is in the board of trustees. We infer the majority think President Bartlett will live the opposition down and weary the alumni into indifference and subsequent forgetfulness, but we think they under-estimate the strength of their opposition. No college, and especially such a college, remote...
There were seven thousand spectators at the Yale-Princeton game in New York on Decoration Day. The N. Y. Herald in commenting on the game, says: "The contest as a whole was but little in advance of the amateur playing of twenty years ago, and in striking contrast to the splendid exhibition on the same field the day before...
...this season, it is difficult to predict in favor of one side or the other. As to the inter-collegiate sports, we have every promise of coming out with an easily won championship. Our entries are so numerous that there are fair chances of our winning in some unforeseen contest, as well as taking several second places. Columbia is our greatest rival for the cup, but unless there are a number of scattered prizes we have every hope at present of keeping it another year for ourselves. Our prospects are even better than last year's, and it would...
...Brunonian says editorially: "The association games thus far played have demonstrated the fact that the contest for the college championship this season will be an exceedingly close one, and will be doubtful, probably, even to the end of the season. This fact, however, has become evident, that Brown has a team in the field of which we may well be proud. Probably not more than once in the previous history of base-ball matters here has a stronger nine taken the field, and this is all the more gratifying considering the disadvantages under which the nine labored earlier...